Global Outrage Follows Trump Pardons Of Blackwater Mercenaries Who Killed 17 Iraqis
Authored by Brett Wilkins via via CommonDreams.org, A senior United Nations human rights official on Wednesday added her voice to the chorus of condemnation of President Donald Trump’s pardons for four U.S. mercenaries convicted of massacring 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007. Marta Hurtado, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said…
Putin In Rare Rebuke To Erdogan: Stop Sending Mercenaries To Caucasus
It’s been an ‘open secret’ even making its way into mainstream media in the West that Turkey has been overseeing the transfer of hundreds or possibly thousands of foreign jihadists from occupied territories in northern Syria to the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, particularly from Idlib and nearby border areas. In a rare direct rebuke of Erdogan’s…